‘I could probably benefit from dating a variety of people. That part of my education is deficient. ‘But I realized I have no experience in a serio...us relationship either and I’m going to have to do it eventually, so this seems as good a time as any.’ ‘You silver-tongued devil. You sure know how to sweep a girl off her feet.’ ‘Well it is logical, isn’t it?’ ‘Shut up and kiss me.’ I knew what he meant and I knew how he felt, fortunately for him, or I would have tossed him out on his ear long ago.. No, it's like this: I've bagged you, I'm going to keep you,and I'm going to kill you. So why don't you just have a good cry about it and,when you're done, we'll be on our way."So they did cry: big heartbroken sobs. When they finally subsided into snifflesand the occasional plaintive whimper, he got them up, not ungently, and marchedthem out. He found that they had to go in whatever direction he told them,though it was clear they didn't want to. In this way, he herded them toward the castle.. In a way it was addictive, and he worried that he might try to seek out that thrill once she was gone, as if a seed had been planted in his subconscious. Would he find himself pulling the tails of UNN auxiliaries in an attempt to get his fix? He thought not, but he had been criticized for having too high an opinion of himself in the past.“I said we’d do this your way,” she conceded, “so give me the ideal human experience.”His expression softened at the prospect, the fruity scent of her shower. “Yes, I killed most of them while they slept. It still haunts me even though I justify it that they are at war with my adopted country and it was necessary to slow down any possible treaty that the two countries might come to. I did that the night before we left the city.”She stared at me hard for a few minutes in silence, looking for something in me before she nodded her permission for me to continue. I don’t know what, if anything she found, I still couldn’t read the politically and.